These are meetings with the teacher which allow students an opportunity to discuss their academic progress.
What are student-teacher conferences?
This type of assessment occurs during each class and could involve a conversation with a student.
What is formative assessment?
This is the proficiency description that corresponds to a traditional 'A'
What is extending?
This occurs throughout the year with students, teachers and families.
What is informal reporting of student achievement?
This is done within grade teams to ensure student learning at Collingwood is valid and reliable.
What is collaboration?
This is an essential part of formative assessment and can be given oral or written.
What is feedback?
This is a type of mark that should not be given out on an assignment such as a project or lab.
What are group marks?
A summative grade should not be reflected by this.
An 'average' of their marks.
Courses taught in the same trimester are required to adhere to these types of plans.
Same Assessment plans?
Formative assessment involves regular feedback (oral or written) and requires students to do this.
A student in Grade 8/9 will receive an overall proficiency score based on this.
What is an examination of the entire body of student work to date?
Teachers will provide students this opportunity in order to show their learning.
What are multiple ways to express their learning?
These types of 'assessments' were generally not part of traditional grades in the past but are seen as essential evidence of students demonstrating understanding.
What are conversations or observations?
This type of assessment is the point in time when a teacher looks at the student’s evidence of learning in the course and assigns a grade for a reporting period.
What is summative assessment?
What is one week?
Teachers will do this to suit the needs of their students to ensure that all learners are challenged and supported
What is differentiation?
This type of learning focuses on demonstrating mastery of specific skills, rather than just completing coursework?
What is competency-based learning?
Grades for reporting periods will reflect these considerations.
What is most recent, most consistent?
These are standards that should be shared with students during each class and posted on Google Classroom.
What are the learning standards?
Learning should take place in this sort of environment where students feel comfortable taking risks and tackling complex content in service of learning.
What is a safe environment?